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Date Sent: 2010-07-17
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, July 17, 2010 Saturday ed. |
US Authorities Shut Down WordPress Host With 73,000 Blogs -- 94 Charged in Medicare Scams Totaling $
Obama and Hillary's fund raiser gets 12 years -- US-born radical Muslim
cleric added to American terrorism blacklist -- Iran’s President Now
Aims at Rivals Among Conservatives -- Head of AZ State Police Uses
Office to Attack Daughter's ex-Lover?
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News Link • Internet
U.S. Authorities Shut Down WordPress Host With 73,000 Blogs
07-16-2010
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Torrent Freaks
A free blogging platform has been taken down by its hosting provider on orders from the U.S. authorities on grounds of “a history of abuse”. More than 73,000 blogs are out of action as a result.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama and Hillary's fund raiser gets 12 years
07-16-2010
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Reuters
Hassan Nemazee, an Iranian-American businessman who raised money for the political campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for defrauding Bank of America, Citigroup and HSBC Holdings out of $292 million.
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News Link • TERRORISM
US-born radical Muslim cleric added to American terrorism blacklist
07-16-2010
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AP
US Treasury Dept. placed al-Awlaki " accused of helping plan the crotch bomber " on its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists. The move comes 6 months after the US government put al-Awlaki on a secret list of targets to be captured or killed
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News Link • Iran
Iran’s President Now Aims at Rivals Among Conservatives
07-16-2010
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NY Times
Having successfully suppressed the opposition uprising that followed last summer’s disputed presidential election, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his supporters are now renewing their efforts to marginalize another rival group " Iran’s traditional
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Studies Halted at Brain Lab Over Impure Injections
07-16-2010
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NY Times
Columbia Univ. has suspended research at a nationally prominent brain-imaging center and reassigned top managers after federal investigators found it routinely injected mental patients in their brain with drugs that contained dangerous impurities.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Iroquois Defeated by Passport Dispute
07-16-2010
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NY Times
The 23 players on the Iroquois national lacrosse team expected to spend this week vying for a world championship. Instead, they spent Friday night divvying up their gear in the driveway outside a Hilton hotel here, having officially declared defeat i
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Steve Wynn Takes On Washington
07-16-2010
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Steve Wynn via infowars.com
Steve Wynn, a casino resort/real-estate developer who has been credited with spearheading the dramatic resurgence and expansion of the Las Vegas Strip, talks about the Fall of America.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
NRA MEMBERS NEED TO SAY: ENDORSE SHARRON ANGLE!
071610
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www.varight.com
The NRA is rumored to be able to endorse Sen. Harry Reid. Their members need to stand up and say NO! Support the RIGHT ANGLE instead: Sharron Angle for US Senate!
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
COULD THE TEA PARTY GO NON-INTERVENTIONIST? IS SO WATCH OUT!
071610
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www.varight.com
The Tea Party could be won to Ron Paul's anti-war, non-interventionist positions through budgetary and debt concerns. That is the thesis of W. James Antle, III at the American Conservative. If Antle is right, and he sees Rand Paul as the catalyst,
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Head of AZ State Police Uses Office to Attack Daughter's ex-Lover?
07-16-2010
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Phoenix New Times
Glendale PD pulled Wright over "at gunpoint"....Meanwhile, on the same day, Glendale detectives searched Jacobs' home (without a warrant), seized his computers and interviewed Jacobs at work without allowing him the benefit of a lawyer, the suit stat
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Mercury Home to Violent Magnetic Storms, Ancient Volcanoes
07-16-2010
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Space
Mercury is wracked by intense magnetic disturbances more extreme than any on Earth, new research suggests.
The small, rocky planet also experienced volcanic activity for much longer than once thought, according to several new studies based on obse
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Sperm in All Animals Originated 600 Million Years Ago
07-16-2010
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LiveScience
A gene responsible for sperm production is so vital that its function has remained unaltered throughout evolution and is found in almost all animals. The ability to produce sperm originated 600 million years ago. The gene, called Boule, appears to be
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
94 Charged in Medicare Scams Totaling $251M
07-16-2010
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AP
The kickback room had a poster on the wall, showing a woman with a finger to her lips warning: "Don't Gossip" and "Be on the lookout."
"In these days, the walls talk." With the surveillance, the walls "had ears and they had eyes," US Attorney Lync
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
Is the Gold Trade “Crowded”?
Jeff Clark
It’s true that GLD’s assets just passed the $50 billion mark, and that it’s the second largest U.S. ETF. Yes, mints had difficulty filling orders when the Greek crisis broke. And yes, the gold price is up nine years in a row.
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News Link • Philosophy: Liberalism
To Protest Hiring of Non-union Help, Union Hires Non-union Picketers
07-16-2010
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Wall Street Journal
The union hires unemployed people at the minimum wage"$8.25 an hour"to walk picket lines. Mr. Raye says he's grateful for the work, even though he's not sure why he's doing it. "I could care less, I am being paid to march around and sound off."
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Currencies
Cheap change - Canada ponders punking the penny. Will the US kill its copper colored coin ?
07-16-2010
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The Toronto Star
Canadian Mint has talked to officials in both Australia and New Zealand " two countries that have axed the one-cent coins " to learn about their experience in a penny-free society.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
BP: Oil no longer flowing into the Gulf
07-16-2010
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Agence France-Presse
BP engineers Thursday stopped oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since April as they shut all valves on a new cap placed on top of a fractured wellhead, a BP official said
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News Link • Military
Rangel again calls for military draft
07-16-2010
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The Associated Press via the raw story
Rep. Charles Rangel is again calling for a military draft to highlight the fact that relatively few families are bearing a disproportionate burden in fighting the nation's wars.
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Expert suspects BP has ulterior motive behind oil well cap
07-16-2010
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David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Since a blowout preventer cap was placed over BP's damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico last weekend, there have been repeated delays in the so-called "well integrity tests" to determine whether the cap can be effective in holding back the oil.
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News Link • Drug War
Budget Axe Falls on Stockton Narcs
07-16-2010
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stopthedrugwar.org/
The California Central Valley city of Stockton has been a poster child for the Great Recession, infamous for its housing developments filled with foreclosed homes, its tent cities along the San Joaquin River, and its horrendous 20% unemployment rate.
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Future Predictions
Rockefeller Study Outlines “Doom Decade”: Life For All But Super Wealthy Will Be Hell On Earth
07-16-2010
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Steve Watson via Prison Planet.com
Terror attacks, natural disasters and a surveillance security crackdown
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
BP ’stops oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico’
07-16-2010
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Rowenna Mason via Prison Planet.com
BP has succeeded in stopping its Gulf of Mexico leak for the first time since an accident on April 20 killed 11 men and triggered a giant oil spill, boosting the shares.
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News Link • Government
Biggest expansion of government power over banking, markets since Depression
07-16-2010
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Damian Paletta and Aaron Lucchetti-Prison Planet
Congress approved a rewrite of rules touching every corner of finance, from ATM cards to Wall Street traders, in the biggest expansion of government power over banking and markets since the Depression.
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